Adrian Newey, the man who can see air

There are many in Formula 1 - beginning with Aston Martin team owner Lawrence Stroll - who believe that with this man sitting at the drafting table, a team doesn't need the fastest driver to win.

Adrian Newey - the man who can see air - turns 66 today and it's a celebration of perhaps Formula 1's greatest ever engineer and aerodynamicist.

Newey spent his formative motorsport years with March, first in America in the challenging world of IndyCar and then in Grand Prix racing with Leyton House.

But Williams was the team that brought the designer his first F1 wins, with Newey's collaboration with Patrick Head yielding tremendous success for the better part of his six years at the British team, a stint that was followed by a further successful nine years with McLaren, from 1997 to 2005, before he switched his allegiance to Red Bull and added an incredible six additional Constructors' titles to his prestigious track record. 

An avid race car collector, Newey regularly puts himself behind the wheel of a classic sports car or F1 car, just to keep the juices flowing.

In the picture above, we see him at Goodwood's Festival of Speed in 2023 ​​before a run up the hill in his Tyrrell-Ford 003 - a car he once built as a child as a Tamiya model kit!